About This Site
This website provides a commentary on every work of Kierkegaard. All of the remaining materials are supplementary in nature. It is my hope that this site may prove to be a tool of research for serious students and amateurs alike.
Navigation and Accessibility
Main links are on the top of every page. Links to all parts of the site are in the footer. You can also see the site map for every link.
I have labored to make this site more accessible for the visually impaired, and I would like to hear from those users how the site works for them. I have coded the site so that you can enlarge and shrink font size. To change font size, either in Firefox, or Internet Explorer, select the "View" Menu, then "Text size". According to the studies I've seen, most people like black text on a white background. But many, like me, find that fatiguing. You now have a choice to switch formats at anytime. Throughout the site you will see the two SK buttons near the top of the right panel. These switch between dark font on a predominantly white background and dark font on a darker background.
Technical Notes
This site was designed with only the newer browsers in mind. Because they are freely obtainable, I feel that it is reasonable for users to upgrade their browsers once a year. My minimum recommendation is Mozilla Firefox 1 or Internet Explorer 6. I happen to believe that Firefox is greatly preferable. Firefox is more secure, supports more web display technology (CSS), and allows tabbing. I have not tested this site on older browsers, nor on any operating systems except Windows XP Pro because I lack the means to do so.
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If for any reason you have JavaScript turned off in your browser, you will not be able to view the abstracts on the main Commentary page, nor switch programmatically between style sheets. However, you can go straight to the Commentaries themselves, and, if you have Firefox, you can change the style sheet by going to the View menu, then Page Style, and then select the style you want.
This site adheres to the strict version of the XHTML coding standard. XHTML is more correct HTML based on XML. In this version of the site I have endeavored to make greater use of CSS to minimize the use of images, and use more features of the latest browsers.
Acknowledgements
Naturally, all of the historical images at this site are borrowed. Either they were scanned from books or found on the web. Grateful acknowledgement goes to Kierkegaard Manuscripts at Det Kongelige Bibliotek for their excellent and helpful web site on Kierkegaard, the source for many of the images at this site. Thanks to Wikipedia for the image of SK's statue and another image of SK.
Acknowledgement goes to Princeton University Press for its publication of Kierkegaard's Writings, which is the definitive English translation of Kierkegaard's works. Most of the lengthy quotations are from this source, as well as the images of the works' title pages, and other images. See also the Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library.
Acknowledgment goes to Per Larsen, the originator of Kierkegaard on the Internet, and to Julia Watkin, the director of the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Australia, for occasional scholarly assistance.
Thanks to Bradley K. Warden for the photo and text for Kierkegaard's Cupboard which resides at The Søren Kierkegaard Collection in Copenhagen City Museum.
The JavaScript used for the abstracts on the Commentary page was devised by moo tools.
About The Author D. Anthony Storm
I have a BA in French with minors in Latin and Greek, and have completed the course work for a PhD in Classical Studies from CUNY. But my knowledge of Kierkegaard is largely self taught from decades of reading. I am an amateur in the best sense of the term. An amateur is, after all, one who indulges in something for the love of it. By trade I am a Web Developer. I am responsible for all content and coding, and hold the copyright for all text except for quoted material. See acknowledgements above for information about images.
How To Cite This Website
Storm, D. Anthony. D. Anthony Storm's Commentary on Kierkegaard. Available at http://www.sorenkierkegaard.org/. Accessed YYYY-MM-DD. [i.e. date of access].